The increasing use of social media sites in countries like India has given rise to large volumes of code-mixed data. Sentiment analysis of this data can provide integral insights into people's perspectives and opinions. Code-mixed data is often noisy
in nature due to multiple spellings for the same word, lack of definite order of words in a sentence, and random abbreviations. Thus, working with code-mixed data is more challenging than monolingual data. Interpreting a model's predictions allows us to determine the robustness of the model against different forms of noise. In this paper, we propose a methodology to integrate explainable approaches into code-mixed sentiment analysis. By interpreting the predictions of sentiment analysis models we evaluate how well the model is able to adapt to the implicit noises present in code-mixed data.
India is one of the richest language hubs on the earth and is very diverse and multilingual. But apart from a few Indian languages, most of them are still considered to be resource poor. Since most of the NLP techniques either require linguistic know
ledge that can only be developed by experts and native speakers of that language or they require a lot of labelled data which is again expensive to generate, the task of text classification becomes challenging for most of the Indian languages. The main objective of this paper is to see how one can benefit from the lexical similarity found in Indian languages in a multilingual scenario. Can a classification model trained on one Indian language be reused for other Indian languages? So, we performed zero-shot text classification via exploiting lexical similarity and we observed that our model performs best in those cases where the vocabulary overlap between the language datasets is maximum. Our experiments also confirm that a single multilingual model trained via exploiting language relatedness outperforms the baselines by significant margins.
